Regional diversity of peasant household response to new countryside construction based on field survey in eastern coastal China

Liu, Yansui; Chen, Yangfen; Long, Heng

doi:10.1007/s11442-011-0886-x

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“…), but also due to the fact that Foreign Direct Investment (further -FDI) inflows in regions are less intensive in comparison to FDI inflows in large cities, especially under the conditions of neo-liberal globalisation (Na, Lightfoot, 2006;Pick et al, 2010;Ramasamy et al, 2017;Li et al, 2018, etc.). Regions are facing such urgent problems as the lack of attractive work places (Williams, 2011), wage disparities (Liu et al, 2011), aging society (Gadsby & Samson, 2016) and perverse practice of social taxation (Li et al, 2014), which proposes that poor regional development is impeding the entire development of a state.…”

Section: Literature Review: Summary Of the Results From Previously Comentioning

confidence: 99%

Regional Estimates of Shadow Economy in Lithuania

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Rózsa²,

Gasparėnienė

et al. 2018

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The article is very topical and of high scientific value as it covers the problems of regional exclusion emphasized in the EU strategic documents. Regions suffer from social and economic exclusion, which, in turn, induces high unemployment and crime rates, and leads to the flourishing of smuggling. The aim of this article is to estimate the level of the shadow economy in the regions of Lithuania over the period 2012 to 2016. The topic is very relevant to such transition economies as Lithuania with huge separation between regions and large cities. Deep social problems in regions, lack of job places and absence of investment along with high emigration rate and intensive population's movement to the largest cities lead to the growth of crime rate and high scope of the shadow economy. Calculations performed under the MIMIC model have shown that the share of indirect taxes, average income, the cases of cigarette smuggling, population of women per 1000 men, the number of criminal offences, children in social risk families and the number of tourists are the main causes for the emergence and growth/decline of the shadow economy level. The novelty of the article lies in the calculations that reveal a significantly higher level of the shadow economy in the regions than at the country level. Therefore, it is recommended to make calculations at the regional level in order to select measures to more effectively fight with the "shadow". Identified reasons allow formulating the following recommendations for responsible authorities: increase efficiency in tax system, since current excise tax policy has a positive impact on the level of poverty, especially at regional level, deepening of social problems, which as a result contribute to the growth of shadow economy; encourage women occupancy and emancipation and attract funding from national and international projects, to promote equal rights in researched regions; increase the level of attractiveness and security level in cities, promote FDI to cities, and effectively use money from the EU Structural Funds.

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Section: Literature Review: Summary Of the Results From Previously Comentioning

confidence: 99%

Regional Estimates of Shadow Economy in Lithuania

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Rózsa²,

Gasparėnienė

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“…For example, they were absent for encouraging villagers to conduct farmland and forest land transfer so as to make full use of land resources and promote the development of scale management agriculture or local-based agro-food economy. As for the villagers, who should be the mainstay of building new countryside and promoting rural development (Terluin 2003;Ye 2005;Liu 2007;Long et al 2010;Liu et al 2011), they used to work hard but the majority of them chose to earn living outside the hometown in the 2000s. Moreover, the left-behind villagers, instead of taking advantage of affluent land resources and advantageous geographical location to practice local-based development, they intended to wait for, ask for and rely on local government's policy preferences with wishful thinking.…”

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Local responses to macro development policies and their effects on rural system in China’s mountainous regions: the case of Shuanghe Village in Sichuan Province

Liu

Long

et al. 2013

J. Mt. Sci.

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China has promulgated a series of policies including the Western Development Program, the Grain for Green Project, agricultural support policies and building a new countryside strategy to eliminate east-west differences and urban-rural disparities since the late 1990s. This paper gives a holistic examination on local responses to the four typical macro socio-economic development policies and their effects on rural system based on a case study of a mountainous village in southern Sichuan Province. The results showed that the policies have not moved the case study village from its historically marginal status. To some extent, its socio-economic situation might have been worsened by accelerated outmigration of the youth, loss of agricultural land due to afforestation and industrial plants, increased fire hazard due to afforestation and reforestation, increased environmental pollution due to industrial enterprises attracted to the village and a steep decline in agricultural production due to loss of and inefficient use of cultivated land. Factors causing local villages' dilemmas include the nonuniformity of actors' objectives, finiteness of villagers' abilities, and the imperfect incentive and restraint mechanism for local government's activities under existing policy framework composed of uncoordinated one-size-fitsall policies. We suggest that China's rural policy in the new period should gradually shift from a sectoral to a place-based one, from top-down incentives to the development of bottom-up projects, and fully recognize the diversity of rural space, so as to lift local capacities and make good use of the knowledge shared by different actors. Moreover, it is also necessary to integrate the various sectoral policies, and improve the interministerial and interdepartmental coordination of rural policies at regional and local levels.

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“…The samples were selected following the cluster sampling method [35]. We selected four counties (Wenxian, Xinzheng, Xihua and Guangshan) in Henan Province, randomly selected 32 villages in these counties (6,8,7, and 11 villages in Wenxian, Xinzheng, Xihua and Guangshan, respectively) and interviewed more than 10 households in each village randomly (Table 2).…”

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Willingness of Farmers to Transform Vacant Rural Residential Land into Cultivated Land in a Major Grain-Producing Area of Central China

2016

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Abstract:A large amount of cultivated lands in China is occupied by vacant residential areas, thereby wasting land resources and placing local food security at risk. Therefore, transforming vacant rural residential land back to its previous form is urgently required to maintain the amount of cultivated land and guarantee food security. We comprehensively analyzed the willingness of farmers to participate in vacant residential land transformation and determine the factors that influence such willingness, including the awareness of farmers about their rural residential environment, their knowledge of residential land-use policies and their awareness of the consequences of such transformation. A detailed survey was conducted amongst 252 farmers owning vacant residential lands in central China. Amongst these farmers, 75, 87 and 90 were entirely, partly and not living on farming, respectively. Only half of these farmers were willing to transform the vacant residential land, whilst those farmers who were partly living on farming were less willing to participate in the transformation than those who were entirely and were not living on farming. The factors that influence the willingness to transform varied across different types of farmers. Farmers who were not and were partly living on farming were significantly affected by their awareness of their rural residential environment, their knowledge of residential land-use policies, the length of residential land vacant time and their household income. Those farmers who were partly living on farming were also influenced by the number of vacant residential plots they possessed. Farmers who were entirely living on farming were significantly affected by their knowledge of the residential land-use policies, the number of vacant residential plots they possessed, their awareness of the consequences of land transformation and their family size. Results indicate that farmers are anxious about vacant residential land loss and that a communication gap is observed between them. Therefore, along with the communication between farmers and the government, the publicity and transparency of the rural residential land-use policies must be improved to eliminate the communication gap, relieve the anxiety of farmers, and increase the willingness to transform their vacant residential lands.

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Regional diversity of peasant household response to new countryside construction based on field survey in eastern coastal China

Cited by 28 publications

References 27 publications

Regional Estimates of Shadow Economy in Lithuania

Regional Estimates of Shadow Economy in Lithuania

Local responses to macro development policies and their effects on rural system in China’s mountainous regions: the case of Shuanghe Village in Sichuan Province

Willingness of Farmers to Transform Vacant Rural Residential Land into Cultivated Land in a Major Grain-Producing Area of Central China

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